The Boys’ seventh episode had some major plot twists. With the exception of Hughie, The Boys have turned on Butcher, Queen Maeve and A-Train are still alive, and Soldier Boy is Homelander’s biological father.
Whaaaat?! Yes, folks—Eric Kripke and his crew went there in all caps—and crammed so much character growth into one episode that D&D are burying their heads somewhere in the molten pool of the Iron Throne.
We do not say that lightly, but “Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed” was likely the best episode of Amazon’s The Boys thus far. But how does it prepare for The Boys’ season finale, which must be the most intense yet?
What will happen to our characters after that? This is every forecast and theory we have for the Season 3 Finale of The Boys – explained. That is what we are here to theorise. Oh, and this video has a LOT of episode 7 spoilers, so be aware of that.
Recap of Season 3 Episode 7
The seventh episode of Season 3 had a lot of major revelations. VNN’s news update served as the introduction. Our favourite Cameron Coleman Tucker Carlson impersonator is interviewing Ashley Barrett, the CEO of Vought International, after likely being sodomised by her on an earlier episode. At the conclusion of the Herogasm episode, Starlight revealed Soldier Boy’s existence to her 193 million Instagram followers, revealed Homelander’s waning grasp on reality as well as Vought’s shady underbelly, revealed that Maeve had been captured by V.I., and realised the dream of every disgruntled employee by resigning on a live stream.
What was Vought’s plan to hide it? By disclosing Annie’s relationship to Kimiko, you might portray her as a lady who was despised by Homelander once he “found her ties” to the Shining Light Liberation Army. Ashley claims that Starlight is attempting to alter the subject by falsely accusing Homelander in order to protect her side business of human trafficking, but we all know who is actually involved in this.
The scene then changes to The Legend’s home where Hughie is told the truth about Soldier Boy by the former Vought VP of Hero Management. Soldier Boy had Butcher and Hughie’s complete trust and goodwill ever since they were able to reach a solution that met their demands in episode 4, but if you know anything about Supes in the Kripke-verse, you will know that they never act without a reason. Hughie was worried that Soldier Boy might lose control, but he was able to calm him down by entertaining him with tales of D-Day and all of his other deployments throughout the course of his 40-year career.
However, according to the Legend, Soldier Boy invaded Normandy for the photo opportunity two weeks after D-Day. He participated in the dispersal of protesters during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War in Birmingham and Ohio, respectively, and there have even been rumours that he was somehow connected to the killing of John F. Kennedy.
Hughie is aware that Soldier Boy is nothing more than a liar who has lofty ideals of himself and who is a living radioactive waste, but he keeps quiet because they have work to perform. The Legend grumbles about having to burn his Egyptian cotton sheets, while Butcher and Hughie interrupt Soldier Boy’s cougar love-fest, so the group comes up with a good idea to find their penultimate target: Mindstorm.
Using his target’s bipolarity as a clue, Hughie figures out a way to triangulate his position, gaining rare approval from Butcher in the process. The three of them gear up to go after him as the scene cuts to Vought Tower and we find out that Queen Maeve is alive and being held captive presumably in the same cell where Homelander grew up. He tries to intimidate her into giving up Butcher and Soldier Boy’s location, but Maeve isn’t exactly hearing him.
She’s much more interested in the fact that he’s put on concealer; which means that he has a bruise and he is afraid of Soldier Boy. Maeve takes some solace in that notion and rebukes Homelander’s attempts at empathizing with her by bringing up their past and his twisted dreams of starting a “nesting family” with her by telling him she would break anything he tried to stick inside of her, drawing a direct parallel to what Homelander did to Becca.
But his plans for her turn out to be much darker than that, because Homie tells Maeve he’s not there to violate her; he is there for her eggs, though. See, the way he sees things, his child by Maeve would be twice as strong as Ryan, and so, he informs her that he isn’t letting her live, he’s just “keeping her alive”. Maeve stays defiant in the face of imminent death- or worse- and tells him it’s still one of the top three days of her entire life because she saw Homelander scared that day. The scene cuts back to The Boys.
We see Butcher and Hughie shoot up V 24 to prepare to take down Mindstorm but the foxy Payback member manages to get the jump on them and traps Butcher in an endless cycle of nightmares that would eventually kill him via dehydration. Hughie wants to do something to help Butcher, but it becomes very apparent that Soldier Boy doesn’t care about him; all he cares about is “the mission”, which somehow includes shooting a priest and a nun in cold blood under the assumption that they were being mind-controlled by Mindstorm.
Hughie tries to stand up to him and tells him that he has PTSD from spending 40 years as a Russian lab rat, but Soldier Boy bitch slaps him so hard that he has no option but to follow him. It turns into a game of cat-and-mouse from that point onward; whoever gets to Mindstorm first, gets to fulfil their objective first. Keeping this in mind, Hughie continues to follow Soldier Boy as we shift to M.M.’s home and see Frenchie and Kimiko pull up.
After giving her some emergency first-aid at the Flatiron, he brought her to M.M. not just because he was a field doctor and can give her better treatment than most people in an ER, but also because he realised that Butcher had effectively sold Kimiko and Cherie out to Little Nina.
That’s the only explanation for what transpired in episode 6, where Nina managed to nab them both and tried to force Frenchie to choose one or let all three of them die. Thanks to Kimiko’s superior fighting skills, they’re able to make it out of there alive, but now it’s time to settle the score with their former team leader given that he has clearly chosen to prioritize his vengeance over everything else.
Frenchie and M.M. get to work figuring out how to take Soldier Boy out of commission because, as we saw during Herogasm, Halothane would just not do the trick. In the meantime, Starlight has a drink with Kimiko and they both share a touching moment discussing their personal lives. Starlight admits to Kimiko that Hughie doesn’t want to be helped so there’s nothing she can do about it, when Kimiko drops a bombshell on her; she wants Annie to bring her the permanent Compound V so she can get her powers back.
Annie protests at first but relents after reading a note Kimiko had typed out her for in anticipation. Later in the episode, we find out that the reason she wanted V was to protect Frenchie because she has come to see him as a member of her family along with the rest of them- not Butcher- and so she wants to do everything she can to keep them alive. Frenchie figures out that the Russians used Novichok to keep Soldier Boy under but before they can decide where to get some from, M.M. leaves the house in a rage.
The last we see of Frenchie and Kimiko is when he injects her with the V and her powers come back. Kimiko had revealed to him her choice of taking the V again, and Frenchie being Frenchie, he understood. M.M. wouldn’t end this episode on such a positive note though because the reason he left in a rage was that Todd took Janine to a Homelander rally without clearing it with Monique, and it rubbed both her and M.M. the wrong way. Marvin confronts Todd about his decision to endanger his daughter’s life but he sees that his ex-wife’s new boyfriend has totally bought into Homelander’s propaganda and is unwilling to even admit that he can be lying.
Things come to a head when Todd taunts M.M. by saying someone has to be Janine’s father, and M.M. knocks him out for that, but instantly regrets it because he catches Janine watching him with terror in her eyes. No, not Butcher’s dog, come on, you guys! Oh, and speaking of rallies, the one that Homelander ends up attending is a complete blowout because he spends his entire speaking time ranting about Starlight and panicking about Soldier Boy, firing up his laser eyes whenever he suspected that his predecessor was around.
Dakota Bob was right to be baffled by his performance- after all, he was depending on Vought to make him President- and so was Victoria Neuman, who caught Homie enjoying a nice bucket of freshly-squeezed milk; and yes, we are referring to THAT scene from the trailer, though it was strangely cut from the episode. Vicky tells Homie, straight up, to get his crap together and reminds him how useful she has been to him when he threatens to kill her.
She proposes a strictly transactional relationship with him and hands him a yellow piece of paper, which is later shown to have an address scribbled on it. In the meantime, Soldier Boy and Hughie manage to track down Mindstorm and the former is about to get the jump on him when the latter teleports him out of there and brings him to Butcher to wake him up. Hughie tells Mindstorm that he was acting like someone he truly wasn’t, hinting that he too was done with revenge, and that he thought of Butcher as family, for better or for worse.
And so, Mindstorm wakes him up, which is good for him because Billy spent most of this episode reliving the trauma of his brother Lenny’s death and the fact that he held himself responsible for it, and saw a similar fate for Hughie, who he had come to consider a little brother as well.
Butcher wakes up apologizing and Hughie calms him down. Mindstorm asks Hughie to keep his end of the bargain and teleport him somewhere Soldier Boy can’t find him, but it’s too late; a throwing knife to the eye, a back over the face, and several clubbing blow to the head latter, Mindstorm was no more and Solider Boy had learnt the biggest secret that Vought kept from him his entire life. He didn’t tell Butcher and Hughie what it was, though, teasing friction between the two sides.
Starlight breaks into Vought, steals Compound V, and manages to leave the building while exposing Homelander’s homicidal insanity even further in one fell swoop but it comes with a horrifying revelation about V 24; she calls Butcher and tells him that it’s basically a super-dose of brain tumours and that 3-5 doses could kill him and Hughie. Butcher promises to tell Hughie this, but he cuts the call and tells him they need to get more V 24 from the office instead, which is something Frenchie and M.M. anticipate; so Annie decides to save Hughie from Butcher and Soldier Boy, whether he likes it or not.
And the end of the episode is something we’ve done an entire video on, but suffice it to say that it is the most infamous dad-reveal in entertainment history since Darth Vader told Luke Skywalker that he was his father; because Soldier Boy ends this episode by dropping the bombshell on Homelander that he was, in fact, the daddy he had always wanted.
And in the midst of all this craziness, we saw The Deep try to convince Cassandra to have a threeway with an octopus and end up dumping her instead, we gazed into the mind of Black Noir and found out that Soldier Boy’s routine abuse led him to betray him in Nicaragua in the first place and that his injuries were S.B.’s doing, not the rockets’; and we also found out that A-Train was alive, but that he was now living with Blue Hawk’s heart, and he did not feel comfortable with that to say the very least. So, that’s the episode re-capped. Where do our characters go from here? Here are our theories.
Homelander & Soldier Boy will team-up and go after Ryan, bringing 3 generations of Supes into the same frame
Throughout the season, Homelander has avoided acknowledging Soldier Boy’s existence because he knows that he was the only one nearly as strong as him. And besides, Vought made Solider Boy into a mythic hero who was martyred in the fight against the Contras in Nicaragua, so saying that he was still alive would go against every lie they had fed to the world so far and possibly lead to a collapse on the company.
And as Homie puts it in episode 5, if the company is effed, he’s effed. That paranoia and fear escalated to such a proportion that he started talking to himself in the mirror again, and we, the audience, realised just how unstable he really was. Homelander’s mirror-self was coercing him into cutting out the last bit of his humanity, whereas John, the human representation of Homelander, only wanted to be loved by the people.
But in the end, the guy in the mirror ends up winning the argument and convinces John that he doesn’t need a mommy or a daddy; all he needs is to be clean and pure, and the only way to do that is by cutting out the last bit of his humanity. But try as he might, he can’t do it. After fighting Soldier Boy, Butcher & Hughie, he took a bruise and covered it up to protect his image. When Starlight revealed to him that she had been recording/live-streaming him threatening her, he immediately reverts to his PR-shtick and tries to play spin doctor.
The more he tries to reclaim himself as a god, the more human he becomes, and that dissonance is driving him crazy enough to fire up his laser eyes at a Presidential rally filled with civilians. But, weirdly enough, the revelation that Soldier Boy is his father could be the thing that tips the scales in favour of John in Homelander’s head. Because while everything else about him as been superficial, his desire to be loved and to have a family is the only real thing about him.
Homelander has, on multiple occasions, shown that he is very cognizant of the fact that not having the love of a parent is what made him the way he is. He even goes so far as to tell Becca that isolating Ryan from the world would backfire on her and to everyone’s shock, he was right; Ryan did freak out at Planet Vought and Homelander actually handled that situation like a champ, flying his son out of the crowd and helping him calm himself down.
This is not to say that he was a great dad by any measure of the stick; the man pushed his own son from the roof of his house and when Ryan killed Stormfront by mistake, Homie chose to kneel at her side instead of looking after his son. So clearly, his priority is still himself, but we did see a very human side of Homelander come out during his interactions with Ryan.
Something very similar can happen between him and Soldier Boy and there is ample foreshadowing for that. Everyone has asked Homelander to reveal Soldier Boy’s existence to the world and release a statement saying he’s handling it but he has refused to do so out of fear of being stood up. But now that he knows Soldier Boy is his father, that might be the first thing he does, because remember, when he started dating Stormfront, the first thing he did was show her off to Ryan without caring about how problematic her world views were.
Homelander will do anything he wants to as long as it makes him happy, and we’d imagine that this information has left him positive gleeful. And besides, imagine the PR ratings they would draw as America’s First Supe Family! And if you’re still not sold on the idea that they might team-up with each other, we’d like to point you to the Season 3 Trailer breakdown that the cast did for Vanity Fair. In that video, Jensen Ackles addressed a fan theory that said Soldier Boy might replace Homelander, but his reply was very ambiguous.
He said Soldier Boy, “might be able to join him, might be able to fight him” but that Homelander was here to stay as top dog. The former statement in particular felt like him dropping a hint he thought no one would pick up on, and well, looks like he was right; until now, of course.
As for how Ryan plays into it, well, remember that address Vicky gave Homelander? So in the first episode of Season 3, Homelander shows up at Butcher’s house and asks him where Ryan is. The two end up making a death pact instead, but that line of a query is yet to be resolved. It looks like the address Vicky gave her was the location where Ryan was being kept, and if that turns out to be true, then this would mark the first time that we see three generations of Supes together in one place at the same time.
Even comics don’t have something like this going for them, which will make it a unique viewing experience for sure. But while Homie and S.B. join up out of choice, Ryan might not be given one; though that remains to be seen. And we know you’re about to bring up the other person living with him, and we’re about to address her, too.
Butcher might get Grace Mallory killed, mirroring a scene from the comics
Carl Urban put in the performance of a lifetime in this episode. The emotional depth he gave to Butcher was something he sorely needed, because it’s the perfect way to get your viewers hooked to a character before turning their sympathy into pure disgust by revealing their “true colours”. Because in the TV show, Butcher still comes off as a charming Brit who will ultimately do the right thing if not given a choice; but the comics show him in a much darker light.
Butcher is almost constantly playing everyone around him like a fiddle, and that also includes The Boys, but the one kill that really solidified him as a bad guy there is the implication that he killed Colonel Mallory in the comics. And it came right after Mallory warned Hughie about the darkness inside of Butcher as well, which is something Grace has already done on the TV show, albeit in a different fashion.
While we don’t think Butcher himself will do the job on her, we can at least confirm that his vendetta against Homelander will eventually be the ruin of his former team leader. Because if Homie and Soldier Boy decide to go through with what we proposed in our previous prediction, then Grace Mallory will turn into collateral damage for them.
And given the fact that we know how Soldier Boy looked at her back in the day, and his recently-acquired taste for cougars, it’s also possible that things might get way darker than you’d expect them to. But that’s the worst case scenario for us, and we really hope it doesn’t come to that. However, having said that, we do still think that Mallory’s time is tick-tick-ticking, and she might run out in the very next episode. And speaking of ticking clocks….
Soldier Boy could blow up the Flatiron Building to re-create an infamous moment from the comics
Though Soldier Boy and Homelander will team-up according to our theory, their union won’t last too long because just judging by the overall tone of the series, we’re approaching the final leg of this story. Eric Kripke and Co. have already covered 2/3rds of the plotline from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s work, but as you all know, his version is a true adaptation.
Which is why we propose that Soldier Boy, not Butcher, will be the one to blow up the Flatiron Building in the TV show. Why do we think that? Glad you asked; because it’s the season finale of The Boys and they always love to go out with a bang. But more than that, at the end of the episode, Butcher and Hughie decide to “go back to the office” to get more Temp V while Soldier Boy was dropping the truth bomb on his recently-acquired son.
It is entirely possible that after joining up with his rug rat, the father-son duo go after the men who tried to screw with their lives; and again, we all know who’s at the top of Homie’s kill list. It’s possible that the pair might turn up to the Flatiron Building looking to intimidate Butcher & Hughie and things might go out of hand, leading up to Soldier Boy levelling the iconic building with his chest-beam.
Now, in the comics, the reason for the destruction of the office was because Butcher was “tying up loose ends” after having taken care of Homelander’s attempted coup. Basically, he killed The Boys (minus Hughie) to keep them from trying to stop him from doing what he thinks needs to be done.
But things are unfolding differently in the TV show. For starters, Frenchie, Kimiko and M.M. have seemingly already turned against Butcher, going so far as to warn Annie that he won’t tell Hughie about V 24’s lethal effects, which leads to her decision of wanting to save Hughie. It’s also possible that she might get involved in the situation somehow leading up to the destruction of the Flatiron Building; our guess would be she pisses off Homelander with her bravado so much he asks Daddy Dearest to blow her the eff up. Either that, or something triggers Soldier Boy’s PTSD, speaking of which…
Love Sausage or Little Nina might give Frenchie and M.M. the Novichok
Frenchie and M.M. figured out that the deadly Russian nerve agent called Novichok is what the Ivans used to keep Soldier Boy under for 4 decades. But they have a big problem; Novichok isn’t exactly an over-the-counter-drug. In fact, it’s very hard to get a hold of it if you’re not tight with the FSB because they’re practically the only ones with access to it. Frenchie remarks that they might have to take a trip to Russia to secure the Novichok, but we know that that’s not going to happen again just because of how things are seemingly being set-up for a train-crash.
What is possible is them using a Russian contact to get it, and that’s where Love Sausage and Little Nina come into the picture. Now, admittedly, Little Nina is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that she wanted to kill Frenchie, Kimiko and Cherie just an episode earlier, but she wasn’t killed in the process. In fact, Tomer Capone’s character specifically mentions that Nina was gone, confirming that she is still alive.
We have already seen that Nina has contacts within the Russian government and the FSB as well, which is how she gave Butcher Soldier Boy’s location in the first place. So she is probably their best bet at getting Novichok from a practically POV, and now that Kimiko has regained her powers, Nina will probably crap her leather skirt if she sees her again. She was already terrified of Kimiko even she was powerless, after all, so if Frenchie and the crew go back to her, there is a chance she might play ball without trying to kill them all.
But a more interesting possibility is Love Sausage. In the comics, Love Sausage is literally the only Supe who is a nice guy through and through. What’s more is he works with the Boys and helps them produce a version of Compound V that makes Supes’ heads pop if activated at a certain frequency; which is the inspiration for Victoria Neuman’s powers from the show. But in the comics, Billy kills him after Love Sausage ceases to be useful to him, and given that his role in the show isn’t as integrated into the story as his comic book counterpart’s, it’s possible that they might give him his comic book role on a marginal scale.
It would also make sense for them to go to Love Sausage to bring the running gag between him and Mother’s Milk full circle, so there’s that to consider as well. Suffice it to say, The Boys aren’t going back to Russia again, they’ll find a way to bring the Novichok to the US, and it could end up involving Little Nina or Love Sausage. We’ll have to wait to see which one it is.
A-Train & Black Noir might end up turning on Homelander/Vought and join The Boys
Two characters that really got us thinking this episode were A-Train and Black Noir. Well, Noir, not so much thinking, as feeling all of the feels for him and his Buster Beaver Pals. Turns out, Butcher did pick out the wrong file when he took down Gunpowder, because the “routine abuse” described in that official complaint was meted out to Black Noir more than anyone else.
We saw this through his own eyes, when an animated rendition of key events from his life played out in front of us. Not only was Noir relentlessly bullied and screwed out of big-money roles by Soldier Boy, but the fact that he was mute, brain-damaged and sported a horribly scarred face was also thanks to the patriotic bastard. After reliving the events of that fateful day in Nicaragua- confirming Noir’s leadership of the attack on S.B.- he decides that he needs to face his tormentor once and for all.
And that’s where The Boys might come into play, at least the ones who aren’t with Butcher. Black Noir might be brain damaged and have the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old, but he is a genuine dude under the mask, and if he can convince Frenchie, M.M. and Kimiko that he wants to join up with them, then we’ll have the makings of a counter-strike team of Supes who can at least help keep Homelander and Soldier Boy at bay.
Inversely, it’s also possible that Homelander might kill Black Noir himself once he finds out how his best friend sold out his own father, but either way, it’s clear that Noir’s final stand will be shown in the next episode; unless, of course, they decide to put it off for some reason.
One thing they can’t put off is A-Train’s redemption arc, which continued to take twists and turns as Reggie found out he was only alive thanks to Blue Hawk’s heart- the man who paralyzed his brother to begin with. Not only that, but Vought is back up to their BS again, trying to rewrite his life story to fit their profit margins.
We’ve seen how they shut down A-Train’s actual heroism previously when he was asked not to recount the story of him manifesting his powers because it was “too violent”. We see it again here when Ashley insists that his coach in the new movie Training A-Train will be Tom Hanks, when A-Train clearly rejects her idea and states that his brother is his coach. Though Ashley just smiles and yells out A-Train, baby before leaving the room, Reggie just lies there thinking about what he had become.
Jessie T. Usher does a great job of conveying exactly how A-Train feels about all this, his internal conflict literally materializing on Usher’s face. But what makes us think that A-Train might join The Boys is the fact that Soldier Boy seems to be more like Liberty than we first thought. That Civil Rights movement he helped quell? Well, guess why that happened in the first place.
And if you keep connecting the dots on this racially-charged mental pathway we’ve put you on, then you’ll probably come to the same conclusion as us; and that is that ain’t no way A-Train is working with a racist ever again. And also, while he did agree to talk shit about Starlight immediately, he did ask Ashley why, which is something he has never done before.
So if A-Train gets himself together and makes a real decision about what he wants to be to the black community, we could see him go out as the hero he has been branding himself as; but that remains to be seen because, at the end of the day, his biggest fallacy is his ego, and if that gets the better of him, then it’s game over for the A-Train baby. But if both Noir and A-Train play their cards right, they might just come out of this with their heads firmly attached to their shoulders, and that might come down to them teaming up with Starlight and the rest of the Boys as opposed to facing off against them.
Queen Maeve might sacrifice herself like she did in the comics to protect Starlight
We don’t know how this one will go down, but we have this feeling that it will happen. Starlight has already entered and exited Vought once in her quest to take them down after quitting The Seven. And sure, Homelander knew she was there all along, but if he isn’t there at all, then that gives Annie the perfect opportunity to break Maeve out of her holding cell. We found out that the Global Wellness Retreat story was blatant lies because Maeve is clearly still at Vought Tower, but how does that bring us to the sacrifice?
Well, if you remember from the comics, both Starlight and Maeve were captured by The Homelander before he launched his plan to take over America. When they made it out of their cells, the duo was confronted by Big Homie himself, who wasted no time in making it clear to them that he did not plan on letting them live.
Maeve bravely pushed Starlight out of the way and charged him head-on, but she ended up losing that same appendage to his monstrous strength, which he then hurled after Starlight as she escaped from his mirth. Something similar can happen here as well, only this time Starlight will be saving Maeve, and she will return the favour by stalling a rampaging Homelander for her to make her escape.
There has been enough foreshadowing for Maeve’s death already. I mean, legit every time she has been referenced since she was apprehended has been with respect to her living status, with the first question always being, “is Queen Maeve even alive?”, which leads up to believe that her time draws closer.
And what better way to give your actual superhero the motivation to go nuts on the super villain of your story than having her witness the death of her literal childhood idol? Starlight has been saying all the right words so far, but she also needs to get her hands dirty with the action to back up what she has said. We think that Maeve’s death will be her tipping point, but that’s just us. What we can confirm is that Butcher and Hughie are about to have a LOT of problems between themselves.
Hughie says he wants to go home but he can’t resist the V and that will be his downfall
So far, Butcher and Hughie have already taken 3 doses each. Butcher has taken perhaps a couple more, but we bring this up because Annie discovered that 3-5 doses of V 24 can cause your brain to develop so many lesions that you will eventually die of a horrific haemorrhage or something worse. In fact, Hughie specifically says Butcher’s brain is leaking when something comes out of his ear while they were tracking Mindstorm.
But that’s not what makes this situation so delicate; it’s the fact that Butcher doesn’t tell Hughie what v 24 does to the brain immediately that really puts the nail in the coffin. Throughout the episode, we saw him lamenting Lenny’s loss and trying to prevent his younger self from making the decisions that led to his younger brother’s death.
He also realises that he sees Lenny in Hughie, and it becomes even more evident when he confuses the two after Mindstorm wakes him up. But what’s really tragic is the fact that, in the end, it looks like dream-Lenny’s ominous last words might just turn out to be true. Because Butcher leaving Hughie in the dark about his brain’s condition is not just a violation of his trust, it actively endangers his life.
It’s meant to be a direct parallel to the way that Butcher leaving for the SAS led to Lenny’s untimely demise; no matter how much Billy tries to deny it, in the end, he is the monster his father was. Him not telling Hughie about the effects of the V is what seals his status as the show’s true antagonist because he is literally too far gone by that point.
We can imagine Hughie breaking out of the powerful haze that the V 24 has put him in when he realises how much Butcher has toyed with his life since the day he met him, but that’s just it, isn’t it? Hughie loves the way that V makes him feel, and that addictive feeling is hard to break out of. There’s always a chance that he might just become a nihilistic mess like Butcher himself, but if anything will be Wee Hughie’s downfall, it will be his own actions, as has been made very clear throughout this season.
Marvelous Verdict
These aren’t even all of our predictions, but this video has gotten too long already, so we’ll wrap this one up here. Season 3 has been a roller coaster from a pure story-telling perspective. I don’t think The Boys ever had this many plot twists in both seasons 1 & 2 combined! Heck, watching episode 7 was like stepping onto a minefield of plot twists, but that’s what made this video so much fun to work on.
Every prediction we’ve made here might come true or might fall flat on its face, but they’ve all got sound logic and reasoning behind them and that is a testament to the creative genius of the show’s creators. If Eric Kripke’s team had not given us such a rich and interconnected tapestry of characters to riff off of, then we wouldn’t have been able to come up with this video in the first place. But now that we have, let us know which of them you agree with, which of them you disagree with, and which of them you think are just not going to happen, down in the comments below.